The wind and waves are calm after the earth-shaking rain outside the gate, but the big waves after the peace inside the gate are peaceful.

Hebei Province has had an eventful year this year, having just suspended the use of troops against Goguryeo and cleaned up the Lu family, but after the autumn, it encountered a once-in-a-century locust plague. Thousands of miles of fertile fields have no harvest, and the people have no food to eat.

Li Shimin turned pale overnight, and issued two edicts in a row to condemn himself, begging God to spare his people and save them from their crimes.

If the emperor is the Son of Heaven, Li Shimin is probably not his own one. When someone else is an emperor, it can't be called smooth, but it is also a disaster and a disaster. When Li Shimin became emperor, this style of painting was completely different.

God didn't give Li Shimin any face, floods, droughts, locust plagues, earthquakes, I will give you the whole thing every other year, and if you don't get it right, I will give you a "luxury package", and Li Shimin who is "comfortable" doesn't want it.

And what's worse is that when Tang Gaozong was in power, the Tang Dynasty did not have disasters and famines for many years, so many people attributed the reason to Li Shimin's usurpation of the throne and his attempt to seize the throne.

It's just that Li Shimin still can't have a seizure, and he really did a bit of a bad thing in this matter, so when these rumors reached his ears, he just broke a few things angrily, but he didn't kill innocents indiscriminately.

Of course, there is a limit to this innocence. If you are an ordinary person with an innocent family background, you just listen to others, and you can't control your mouth and talk to others casually, the situation is not serious, you can turn out after a warning, and you will not be punished.

But if you are a retainer of a minister in the court, or a son of a family eunuch. So I'm sorry, whether you have it intentionally or unintentionally, you will be arrested and imprisoned, or directly executed, and it will even affect the family behind them.

Fortunately, some time ago, the fall of the Lu family sounded a wake-up call for many families, so that they did not dare to be too presumptuous, only a few children of small families who did not know whether they were alive or dead passed on such words, and the six great families were silent about it - no one wanted to touch this mold!

Even so, the DPRK and China still set off bursts of bloody storms.

The people have complaints and complains, yes, he Li Shimin can endure it in order to be a generation of virtuous monarchs, but you are in the high hall, and you still don't know whether to live or die and follow the blind coaxing, then I'm sorry, go back to your mother's womb and rebuild your life!

In just a few days, Li Shimin issued two consecutive edicts to condemn himself, and more than a dozen bloody lives were also lost at the entrance of the vegetable market.

However, there was no particularly good way to deal with locusts in these years, and he could only rely on the ancient smoking method, which had limited effect and could not cure the insect plague, so Li Shimin could only watch the locusts sweep from one place to another, and could not do anything about it.

The only thing to be thankful for is that it is the autumn harvest season at this moment, the local government mobilized the people to grab the grain, and the locusts to compete for rice grain, whether it is the official official errand, or the county lord, all went to the ground to collect grain, but also successfully harvested a large area of grain from the mouth of the locusts, the disaster is serious, but it is not enough to make the people of the entire Hebei Province miserable, the affected places are mainly concentrated in Youzhou, Jizhou, Jizhou, Xingzhou, Weizhou five places.

Although large numbers of locusts have been found in other places, the grain has been harvested, and it is still fine. It's just that the disaster situation in the affected five continents is relatively serious, and the imperial court urgently needs to allocate grain for disaster relief, otherwise the people may not be able to survive this winter.

Unfortunately, half of the treasury stock was taken away by the Northern Expedition, and the remaining half of the grain stock may not be able to relieve the five states.

Li Shimin was a good emperor, and while ordering the state treasury to open a warehouse to provide grain, he also distributed all the money and grain in his private treasury, just so that the people in the affected areas could have a full meal.

For this reason, the support in the palace could not make ends meet, and Li Shimin had to tighten his belt with the harem concubines to live.

This strangled something.

The story is very simple, the whole palace is living in a miserable life, and when you can only eat vegetarian food, there is one person who still eats and drinks heavily, regardless of the life and death of the people.

That person can be anyone, but it can't be the prince-Li Chengqian.

It's just that Li Chengqian is so good at dying, he just secretly closes the door and spends all day drinking, and lets the group of diners who sent people to feast him.

Probably because Li Chengqian held the mentality of "it is better to be happy alone than to be happy with everyone", he took a group of younger brothers to eat meat and drink wine, and also called a group of dancing girls to help the fun, and his life was not happy.

Originally, it's okay for you to be high, just know how to be restrained, the crown prince Zhang Xuansu and others also know Li Chengqian's temperament, know that he is holding a banquet, and plan to endure him for a while.

Unexpectedly, Li Chengqian was inch by inch, and seeing that Zhang Xuansu and others did not come to stop him, he became more and more excessive, and he took a group of younger brothers from noon to midnight without stopping.

At this moment, Zhang Xuansu's batch of old sour rot is decisively unbearable - Lao Tzu... Ahh

Your father is honest and honest, leading by example, and spending diligently and thriftily only for disaster relief, you are good, as a prince and a prince of a country, you are so extravagant and extravagant, and you don't take this world to heart? I can't bear it!

So Zhang Xuansu raised his arms and shouted: "him!" A group of old stubborn people rushed to the banquet, scolded the prince, drove away the dancers, and even scolded the diners under the prince's command.

It was probably a few old men who scolded him, and some of the words he said became more and more ugly. Li Chengqian was already drunk, and the anger in his chest that was scolded by them was suffocated, and then... He actually picked up a wine jug and limped up to Zhang Xuansu's head!

Fortunately, Zhang Xuansu's reaction was fast enough and he deviated from his head in time, otherwise he wouldn't have opened his head this time? Even so, he didn't quite hide from the flask.

The wine jug smashed on his arm, only to hear him scream, the wine jug shattered to the ground, and Zhang Xuansu also fell to the ground holding his bloody arm.

The old minister next to him was frightened when he saw it, and hurriedly sent someone to find the imperial doctor, squatting down to check Zhang Xuansu's injury.

Li Chengqian was frightened to wake up by Zhang Xuansu's scream, and saw Zhang Xuansu screaming and lying on the ground, his arm was bleeding continuously, and his mind was full of fear, he wanted to squat down to check Zhang Xuansu's injury, but unexpectedly, his feet were weak and he sat directly on the ground.

When I stretched out my hand, I found that my whole body was shaking so badly that it was very difficult to speak.

"Old... Teacher..."

"His Royal Highness the Prince... Old man... Forgive the old man! The old man doesn't have a disciple like you! Arrogant and lascivious, not listening to advice, ignoring the people, disrespecting teachers, old men... Very disappointed in you, very disappointed! Zhang Xuansu covered his arms, his forehead was full of sweat, but he couldn't hide the disappointment in his eyes.

After more than 20 years of hard work, the students who were taught were this virtue, and they did it to him repeatedly, beating and scolding. His heart is really cold!

Zhang Xuansu covered his arms and walked away with the support of other ministers, but Li Chengqian sat in place, his mood plummeted!

The eunuch next to him saw Li Chengqian sitting on the ground, and kindly wanted to help him up, "Your Highness, it's cold sitting on the ground, and the old slave will help you up......."

"Get out! Get out of here! Solitary... I don't need your help! ”

(End of chapter)